Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda